Romantic legends of Spain
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Romantic legends of Spain is a book by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, translated by Cornelia Frances Bates and Katharine Lee Bates. The preface says that Mrs. Cornelia Frances Bates (1826-1908) took up the study of Spanish at the age of seventy-one. A passage says that the event of the day, in the earlier weeks of his banishment, was the arrival of the mounted postman with El Contemporáneo.
A scene in the volume has Constanza emerging from a little thicket while her companions, beginning anew to sing, carol words to the sweetest of melodies. A chorus begins with the words "Genii of the air, dwelling in the luminous ether". One description of a noisy afternoon lists, among others, a dog that barks at the boys who tease him with sticks and stones, olive-oil boiling and bubbling in the pan where fish is frying, and a din of songs, castanets, peals of laughter, voices, whistles and guitars.
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- Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
- Pages
- 220
- Language
- English
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